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Re:Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup by ovi256 on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @12:21PM (#970136)
Abandon the 'bon' word ASAP. Nobody really likes cutesy made-up words. I know that in French it means coupon, but use common language.

It's like the recommendation to not use custom UI. Same reason, nobody likes to learn something just to be able to use your site. It raises the cost of entry for new users, and hardly provides any benefit, not even for you (Brand ? Stop kidding).

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Re:Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup by pg on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @01:27PM (#970290)
The name's good enough. It's no worse than Xynga.
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Re:Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup by shawndrost on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @03:31PM (#970677)
Not sure if you took a close look at the site, but the problem isn't the name, it's usage of the word "bon" in places like "Search Bons".
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Re:Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup by pg on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @03:33PM (#970684)
Oh, I see. Yes, that is a mistake.
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Re:Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup by smanek on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:09PM (#970892)
Makes sense. We'll look into changing that (to 'Search Deals', e.g.).

Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: Review My (Common Lisp backed) Startup by rms on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @03:28PM (#972841)
That's no so good when that company is really Zynga and a search for Xynga doesn't really take you anywhere interesting other than this post
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